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great-grandchildren, and a raft of great-great-grand- 

 children. One of his grandchildren, living in Tope- 

 ka, is the mother of nine childrden. 



Attention is being called to the fact that, 

 although the United States, and perhaps, 

 for that matter, the whole wide world, is 

 giving just now gi-eat attention to produc- 

 ing better domestic animals, nothing is be- 

 ing done, or comparatively nothing, in all 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



the world, toward peopling the world with 

 better men and women. The above seems 

 to be a start in the right direction. If it 

 is indeed true that this good man has been 

 a hard-working farmer and a hard-working 

 minister throughout all his long life, I 

 venture to say that that great crowd of 

 descendants are, at least for the most part, 

 a blessing to the world. 



HIGe=PME§§UME GARDENING 



SWEET clover; possibly a new variety, 

 A little north of Medina, near our bass- 

 wood orchard (on the premises of a cousin), 

 while looking over a field of red clover I 

 found here and there some stalks of sweet 

 clover. This is not at all strange, as sweet 

 clover is growing with great luxuriance all 

 along the roadside ever since the road was 

 paved with crushed limestone. This matter 

 has been refen-ed to before — namely, that 

 lime or limestone is Seeded for all the clo- 

 vers, especially sweet clover. Well, all at 

 once my eye caught sight of a plant twice 

 as high as any of the rest, with leaves three 

 or four times as large as the other sweet 

 clovers, besides being slightly different in 

 shape of leaf and manner of growth. At 

 first 1 thought it was not sweet clover at 

 all ; but on closer examination, and by 

 crushing the leaves so as to get the peculiar 

 sweet-clo\^r smell, etc., I decided it was 

 either a sport or due to some accidental 

 extra fertility in the soil. I questioned my 

 cousin, and asked him if it was possible that 

 a dead animal had ever been buried there; 

 but he thought not. About a rod away I 

 found another but smaller plant having the 

 same peculiar leaf and foliage. I cut off a 

 couple of branches and sent them to our ex- 

 periment station, and with it a letter ex- 

 plaining the circumstances. Below is Pro- 

 fessor Thome's reply: 



If. A. J. Root: — I have yours of the 7th, and am 

 much interested in your observations respecting 

 sweet clover. I have referred your letter to Mr. 

 Williams, who is looking after such matters, and he 

 has no doubt that the plant you have found is a 

 mutation, and that it would be well worthy of prop- 

 agation. If you succeed in growing seeds from it, 

 we shall be glad to receive a few seeds for further 

 experiment. We think it more likely to be a muta- 

 tion which may have permanent value than to be 

 merely due to superior soil conditions around that 

 particular plant. Of course, this cannot be deter- 

 mined without further experiment. 



Chas. E. Thohne, 



Director Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station. 



Wooster, Ohio, June 9. 



I have just been down with a good sharp 

 spade and hoe and cleared away the other 

 weeds and clover for the distance of a yard 



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or more all around the plant. I am going 

 to give it careful cultivation, some lime, and 

 possibly some stable manure; and just as 

 soon as I can get seed ripe enough to grow 

 I will plant it and try, if possible, to get 

 plants that will winter over. The question 

 is. Will, these new plants duplicate the par- 

 ent*? If so, we shall have a new sweet 

 clover. See pictures on pages 53G and 537. 

 Judging from the habits and appearance 

 of this one plant it would furnish double 

 the amount of feed, may be three or four 

 tiines as much, as the old sweet clover. I 

 may remark that we have just cut and cur- 

 ed two or three acres of yellow sweet clover, 

 and we are planning to get a crop of seed. 

 But we have been told the seeds Avill ripen 

 evener if one cutting of hay is taken off 

 during May. In .our locality sweet clover 

 furnishes green feed quicker than any other 

 plant we have ever experimented with. If 

 you will not accuse me of " counting my 

 chickens before they hatch," I will say I am 

 planning to give just a few seeds to any of 

 our readers who may be interested in this 

 promising new God-given plant to the chil- 

 dren he loves and to the children who love 

 h'm. 



FETERITA — MORE ABOUT IT. 



We clip the following from Field's Seed 

 Sense for May, sent out by the Henry Field 

 Seed Co., Shenandoah, Iowa. Although the 

 clipping below comes, as I suppose, from an 

 advertising catalog, it contains valuable in- 

 struction in regard to growing this new 

 cereal; and, so far as my experience goes, 

 it is just about right. 



FKTERITA THE IDEAL CHICKEN FEED. 



Incubator Johnson certainly started something 

 when he mentioned in his circular that now would 

 be a good time to plant feterita for chicken feed and 

 save the high-priced wheat. 



You know I have been growing and selling feter- 

 ita for two or three years, and am very enthusiastic 

 about it, and knew that it was splendid chicken feed, 

 but I never thought to mention it. I guess I just 

 took it for granted that everybody else knew it too, 

 and, furthermore, I never got it through my head 

 how hard it was going to be for the women folks to 



